Right to the City in BRICS-Cities

Right to the City in BRICS-Cities

In February 2012, as part of the GROW campaign, Oxfam published the discussion paper “A Safe and Just Space for Humanity.” It sought to present a possible path to a new model of prosperity, capable of providing development in a fair and secure way through the reduction of inequalities and respect for planetary boundaries. In an increasingly urban world, it is imperative that any sustainable development model to be thought of and implemented in the space and scale of the city. It is in this sense that the BRICS-Urbe program, in partnership with Oxfam, developed the research Right to the City in BRICS Cities project, whose objective is to articulate the notion of the right to the city with the Oxfam model for a just and safe world.

The result is the publication Right to the City for a Safe and Just World: the case of BRICS that can be downloaded from the link below (available only in Portuguese). Throughout six chapters, the reader will find theoretical and empirical information on the importance of the right to the city as a fundamental notion for the design of public and private policies capable of turning cities into just, safe and equitable spaces. The publication was ranked by popular vote as the top 9 of the most relevant Policy Studies of 2015 by the Global Go to Think Tank Index Report, a ranking produced by the University of Pennsylvania.